What Adoption-Share does

Adoption-Share is a U.S. nonprofit organization founded in 2013 and headquartered in Brunswick, Georgia, that builds the Family-Match application — a data-driven platform for recruiting foster and adoptive parents and matching them with waiting children in the child welfare system. The platform is described as the world's most advanced foster and adoptive parent recruitment and matching tool, leveraging unique datasets and compatibility-matching research to optimize child-family pairings. Adoption-Share reports cumulative outcomes of 1,500+ children matched, 700 finalized adoptions, 17,000 registered families, and approximately $110M in state savings, with an externally published study (Slaugh et al., 2026) showing a 45% increase in adoption probability for hardest-to-place children and a 60% improvement in placements over the national average.

Family-Match is a single-product SaaS application, delivered as a subscription to state child welfare agencies and child welfare professionals, with secondary use by prospective adoptive and foster families who register free of charge. The organization maintains SOC 2 Type 2 compliance to meet state procurement security requirements and is operated with a lean team of 1-10 employees. Revenue is generated from a mix of recurring state agency contracts and charitable donations, consistent with its nonprofit structure and Georgia jurisdiction.

In 2026, the organization completed a strategic pivot, moving 100% of its focus from its original private infant adoption service to the Family-Match application for foster and adoptive parent matching. The current growth strategy is a state-by-state national rollout, supported by academic research partnerships, governance expansion through a multi-disciplinary Board of Directors, and ongoing product investment evidenced by a version 2 release that reduced placement disruptions by 33%.

Name

Adoption-Share

Legal name

Adoption-Share

Website

https://adoption-share.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Adoption-Share is a U.S. nonprofit that builds Family-Match, a data-driven SaaS platform for recruiting and matching foster and adoptive parents with waiting children, sold to state child welfare agencies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Child Welfare Technology

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Individual and Family Services (6241)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Child Welfare, Foster Care & Adoption Services (BPAGAEAE)

Keywords

• Foster care matching
• Adoption matching software
• Child welfare technology
• Family recruitment platform
• Adoption placement software

Headquarters

HQ city

Brunswick

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Government/State Contracts: Revenue generated from state agencies and child welfare departments that use the Family-Match technology platform to finalize adoptions.
2. Donations: Nonprofit funding through charitable donations from supporters and advocates.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Adoption-Share provides the Family-Match application, a data-driven foster and adoptive parent recruitment and matching platform that connects waiting children with suitable families using unique datasets and research-backed compatibility matching. The platform is deployed to state child welfare agencies and is also made available to families seeking adoption or foster care placements. Adoption-Share is structured as a nonprofit organization supporting the platform through state contracts and charitable donations.

Product overview

Adoption-Share offers a single unified product: the Family-Match application, which is described as the world's most advanced foster and adoptive parent recruitment and matching platform. Originally serving private infant adoption, the organization's 100% focus shifted to Family-Match, leveraging unique datasets and research to provide quality child-family pairings for the child welfare system.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Family-Match: The world's most advanced foster and adoptive parent recruitment and matching platform. A groundbreaking digital tool designed to transform adoption and foster care placement using data-driven compatibility matching to connect waiting children with families.

Products and services

• Family-Match A groundbreaking digital tool designed to transform adoption and foster care placement through data-driven compatibility matching. Family-Match connects waiting children with families best suited to meet their needs quickly and with lasting success, and is deployed to state child welfare agencies while also serving prospective adoptive and foster families directly.

Quantifiable outcome

• 45% increased adoption probability for hardest-to-place children
• +5 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature1 record

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• iFoster: National nonprofit providing resources, support, and technology-enabled services to youth in foster care and the families and agencies serving them. Comparable tech-enabled nonprofit serving the same foster/adoption ecosystem with similar reliance on donations and partnerships with public agencies.
• Raise the Future: Nonprofit organization focused on adoption and permanency for children in foster care, supporting families and agencies through post-adoption services and recruitment. Direct peer with overlapping mission around adoptive family recruitment and supporting child welfare outcomes for waiting children.
• A Family for Every Child: Nonprofit dedicated to finding permanent, loving families for waiting children, including those with special needs or older youth who are harder to place. Direct peer sharing Adoption-Share's hardest-to-place focus and operating through a mix of technology, volunteer engagement, and family recruitment.
• Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption: Operator of Wendy's Wonderful Kids, a national child-focused adoption recruitment program that works with child welfare agencies to find permanent homes for children in foster care. Direct peer given shared focus on adoption recruitment and matching for waiting children, including hardest-to-place youth.
• Adoption.com: Long-standing online adoption matching and family-connection platform that connects birth parents, adoptive families, and agencies. Comparable to Adoption-Share's original private infant adoption roots and its current family-recruitment focus, though Adoption-Share is more specialized in foster/adoptive matching for state agencies.
• AdoptUSKids: Federally funded national photo-listing service that recruits adoptive and foster families and supports child welfare agencies with placement tools. Most direct comparable to Family-Match given shared mission of connecting waiting children with permanent families through technology, though Adoption-Share is more data-driven/algorithmic.

Emerging players

• Case Commons: Nonprofit technology organization that develops case management and data tools used by child welfare agencies. Adjacent peer working with the same state child welfare agencies but focused on broader case-management workflow rather than the specific recruitment/matching layer Family-Match addresses.
• FosterClub: National nonprofit network for young people in and aging out of foster care, providing peer support, advocacy, and resources. Comparable mission-aligned organization in the foster care ecosystem, but focused on current and former foster youth rather than the adoption matching workflow Adoption-Share enables.

Broad incumbents

• Children's Home Society of California: Large, established adoption and child welfare services agency operating across multiple states, providing adoption placement, foster care, and family support. Broad incumbent comparable to Adoption-Share on adoption and foster care service delivery, though delivery model is more traditional agency-based.
• National Council For Adoption: Established national advocacy and membership organization for the adoption community, providing policy, education, and resources to agencies and families. Broad incumbent peer operating across the same child welfare and adoption ecosystem Adoption-Share serves with its Family-Match platform.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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